Lament Of The Frontier Guard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFGHHIJKCCLMNOP QRSDBy the North Gate the wind blows full of sand | A |
Lonely from the beginning of time until now | B |
Trees rail the grass goes yellow with autumn | C |
I climb the towers and towers | D |
to watch out the barbarous land | A |
Desolate castle the sky the wide desert | E |
There is no wall left to this village | F |
Bones white with a thousand frosts | G |
High heaps covered with trees and grass | H |
Who brought this to pass | H |
Who has brought the flaming imperial anger | I |
Who has brought the army with drums and with kettle drums | J |
Barbarous kings | K |
A gracious spring turned to blood ravenous autumn | C |
A turmoil of wars men spread over the middle kingdom | C |
Three hundred and sixty thousand | L |
And sorrow sorrow like rain | M |
Sorrow to go and sorrow sorrow returning | N |
Desolate desolate fields | O |
And no children of warfare upon them | P |
No longer the men for offence and defence | Q |
Ah how shall you know the dreary sorrow at the North Gate | R |
With Rihaku's name forgotten | S |
And we guardsmen fed to the tigers | D |
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